Friday, May 12, 2017

#Nutella has been the
Twitter top trending topic for Venezuela all morning today.

Yesterday Venezuela government
media reported that the pro-government “Fundación para Niños, Niñas y
Adolescentes de Caracas” handed the public prosecutor’s office a document with
more than “one hundred individual and collective complains” about minors being
used by the opposition in “terrorist actions” in the context of this month’s
protests.

In one of the testimonial videos shown by Telesur, a
woman tells of her son being “involuntarily induced” to participate in the
protests. The woman directly accuses Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned
opposition leader Leopoldo López, of offering the popular hazelnut spread Nutella
to the child if he was willing to “cause terrorism in the country.”

“Tintori asked my son
what he liked the most. He answered Nutella. She told him that if he hit the
guard [National Guard] with a bottle she was handing him, which was full of
fuel and had a piece of cloth, she would give him Nutella,” says the woman in the
video.